hamlet

See also: HAMLET and Hamlet

English

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Hamlet (place)

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle English hamlet, hamelet, a borrowing from Old French hamelet, diminutive of Old French hamel, in turn diminutive of Old French ham, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *haim, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (whence English home). Equivalent to Middle English ham (“home, village”) +‎ -let (“small”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhæm.lɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhæm.lət/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophone: Hamlet

Noun

hamlet (plural hamlets)

1. A small village or a group of houses.

   Synonym: thorp

2. (British) A village that does not have its own church.
3. Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae.

Hypernyms

• (small village): settlement

Derived terms

• Blaise Hamlet
• Broughton Hamlet
• Bures Hamlet
• Clint cum Hamlets
• Crediton Hamlets
• Dawley Hamlets
• hamleted
• hamleteer
• hamletted
• Holsworthy Hamlets
• Okehampton Hamlets
• Stockley Hamlet
• Tower Hamlets

Translations

small village

Afrikaans: gehug (af) Armenian: շեն (hy) (šen), գյուղակ (hy) (gyuġak) Asturian: llugar (ast) m Basque: herrixka Belarusian: вёсачка f (vjósačka), ху́тар m (xútar) Bulgarian: селце́ n (selcé) Catalan: poblet m Chinese: Mandarin: 村莊 / 村庄 (zh) (cūnzhuāng), 小村 (xiǎocūn) Chukchi: нымным (nymnym) Coptic: ϫⲉⲫⲣⲟ m (čephro), ⲉⲡⲟⲓⲕⲓⲟⲛ m (epoikion) Czech: osada (cs) f, víska (cs) f, dědinka f, kolonie (cs) f Danish: landsby (da), bygd Dutch: (boeren)gat n, gehucht (nl) n, negorij (nl), uithoek (nl) Esperanto: vilaĝeto Estonian: küla (et) Faroese: bygd f, smábygd f Finnish: pikkukylä (fi), kyläpahanen (fi) French: hameau (fr) m Galician: aldea (gl) f, lugar (gl) m, vilar (gl) m, casal m, poubea f Georgian: სოფელი (sopeli) German: Weiler (de) m, Dorf (de) n, (pejorative) Kaff (de) n Alemannic German: Wihr Greek: χωριουδάκι (el) n (chorioudáki) Hebrew: כפרון \ פַּרְוָן m (kfarón) Hungarian: (administrative terms) törpefalu, aprófalu (hu), (informal) falucska (hu), (esp. farmstead) tanya (hu) Ido: vilajeto (io) Indonesian: kampung (id) Irish: gráig f Italian: casale (it) m, località (it) f, villaggio (it) m, frazione (it) f, borgata (it) f, borgo (it) m Japanese: (a small village) 村落 (ja) (sonraku); (a group of houses) 集落 (ja) (shūraku) Khmer: កូនភូមិ (koun phuum) Korean: 촌락 (ko) (chollak), 마을 (ko) (ma'eul) Latin: vīcus (la) m, vīculus m, Latvian: sādža (lv) f, ciems (lv) m Macedonian: се́лце n (sélce), ка́тун m (kátun), за́селок m (záselok) Malayalam: please add this translation if you can Manx: balley beg m Mirandese: aldé f Norwegian: landsby (no), grend (no) Occitan: masatge (oc) Old English: please add this translation if you can Persian: دهکده (fa) (dehkade) Polish: przysiółek (pl) m, sioło (pl) n Portuguese: aldeia (pt) f, lugarejo (pt) m, aldeola (pt) f, arraial (pt) m, aldeota (pt) f Russian: дереву́шка (ru) f (derevúška), ху́тор (ru) m (xútor), сельцо́ (ru) n (selʹcó) Sanskrit: ग्राम (sa) m (grāma) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: засеок m, насеље n, сеоце n, заселак m Roman: zaseok m, naselje (sh) n, seoce (sh) n, zaselak (sh) m Slovene: vasica f, zaselek m Spanish: aldehuela f, caserío (es) m, aldea (es) f, villar m Swedish: by (sv) c Tamil: please add this translation if you can Telugu: పల్లెటూరు (te) (palleṭūru) Turkish: mezra (tr) Ukrainian: сільце́ n (silʹcé), присі́лочок m (prysíločok), ху́тір (uk) m (xútir) Vietnamese: xóm (vi) Welsh: pentref bach m Yiddish: דערפֿל n (derfl) Yoruba: ìletò, abà, abúlé, egurè

village without its own church

Asturian: llugar (ast) m Chinese: Mandarin: 部落無教會的小村莊 / 部落无教会的小村庄 (bùluò wú jiāohuì de xiǎo cūnzhuāng) Czech: vesnička (cs) f, dědina (cs) f Danish: bygd Estonian: küla (et) Finnish: kylä (fi) (as opposed to kirkonkylä) French: hameau (fr) m Georgian: სოფელი (sopeli) Irish: gráig f Italian: casale (it) m Japanese: (used to describe such European villages) 小村 (こむら, komura) Russian: дере́вня (ru) f (derévnja), ху́тор (ru) m (xútor) Spanish: aldea (es) f Swedish: by (sv) c Telugu: పల్లె (te) (palle)

fish

Finnish: Hypoplectrus German: Hamletbarsche Japanese: ハムレット (hamuretto) Lithuanian: vakos Swedish: hypoplectrus

Anagrams

• Eltham, Lathem, Thelma, methal

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From ham (“skin”) +‎ let (“colour”).

Noun

hamlet m (definite singular hamleten, indefinite plural hamleter, definite plural hamletene)

1. skin colour, complexion

   Synonym: hudfarge

   Han var mørk i hamleten. ― His skin colour was dark.

Further reading

• “hamlet” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• hamlìt

Etymology

From ham (“skin”) +‎ let (“colour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ha(ː)mleːt/

Noun

hamlet m (definite singular hamleten, indefinite plural hamleter or hamletar, definite plural hamletene or hamletane)

1. skin colour, complexion

Further reading

• “hamlet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.